Word: koranic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Persian painters did almost all their work to illustrate tales, poems and the Koran. They were acutely conscious of having just so much space to fill with each picture, and tried to fill it interestingly...
...last day of Ramadan, the month in which the Koran was revealed, and in the hill station of Kanwali. A battalion of the King-Emperor's Indian soldiers were observing Mohammed's strict law. During Ramadan, it is written, a Moslem must not enjoy the pleasures of food, drink, tobacco and women from that time in the morning when a white thread can be distinguished from a black one, until the hour of the evening when neither can be seen...
...Allah said in His holy Koran, 'Let those emerge as a nation who evoke goodness and refrain from evil!' Allah also said, 'Harken unto Allah, ye faithful, and to His messenger when he calls upon you!' "Know ye, all ye Moslems, that a jihad is your sacred duty for the glory of the word of Allah and the salvation of others...
...Remember, ye Moslems. Allah said in His Holy Koran, I will lead you to an occupation that is profitable.' The jihad will save you from purgatory and its tortures...
...Moslems went recently a request for a fatwa-an ecclesiastical ruling. Asked by the Society for the Defense of Palestine to determine whether Iraqis should engage in a jihad-holy war -for their Arab brothers in Palestine, the ecclesiastics of Iraq's holy cities pondered over their Koran, read the Moslem traditions, looked into precedents, ruled last week that according to the words of the Prophet a jihad was called...